Arts & Letters
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Dreams of Heaven
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and…
In Praise of Good Bad Books
I had a fairly bookish childhood. I don’t mean that I was a sedentary youth; I spent…
Dogma’s Defender
Theological Tractates by erik peterson, edited and translated by michael j. hollerich stanford, 296 pages, $24.95 Germany’s…
After the Mighty Gods Depart
They do not always hear our special plea, the lame gods”Deaf-In-One-Ear, Old Hobbled-Knee, that sooty lug the…
Accidents
On the verge of the unthinkable, the iceberg turns unsinkable to the hull. The buoying force of…
A Woman in Full
The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de’ Mediciby elizabeth levhoughton…
The Day the Rain Began
Genesis 7:12 Today seemed just an ordinary day. The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked…
Diversity
The opportunity for us To kick up dust and start a fuss Has so decreased in recent…
Nothing Lies
An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we…
They Shall Beat Their Swords…
With my father’s Army ballpeen hammer I’d found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the…
A Gift
The boy comes to the back door of the parish, bearing he says, “A gift.” A crib,…
Luminous Wisdom
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye:Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo by Dogen, edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi (multiple…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Letters
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
Messianic Restraint
Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $35 n…
